One investigation of Chancellor Helmut...

INVESTIGATION OVER.

May 22, 1986

BONN, WEST GERMANY — INVESTIGATION OVER. One investigation of Chancellor Helmut Kohl has ended, but another continues. West German television and Die Welt, a national daily newspaper, have reported that both inquiries will be dropped. Prosecutors in Koblenz and Bonn began investigations after Otto Schily, a member of Parliament for the environmentalist Greens party, filed criminal complaints. Schilly alleged that Kohl lied to a Rhineland-Palatinate state committee studying allegations that his Christian Democrats avoided taxes on political contributions. The Koblenz prosecutor said that there was insufficient evidence. The Bonn prosecutor is looking into Schilly's claim that Kohl lied in telling a Parliament committee investigating a bribery scandal that he did not receive two donations totaling $27,500. The chancellor has denied wrongdoing and calls Schily's complaints part of a political slander campaign.